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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80301</law_id><section_number>62.1-44.34:35</section_number><catch_line>Definitions. </catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>62.1-44.34:37</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="62.1">Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3.1">State Water Control Law</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="14">Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Discharge</span>&#x201D; means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping, except <span class="dictionary">discharges</span> in compliance with a permit issued by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> or <span class="dictionary">Department</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">EPA</span>&#x201D; means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Facility</span>&#x201D; means any development, building, structure, or installation within the Commonwealth that is required to submit a <span class="dictionary">facility</span> response plan pursuant to the <span class="dictionary">EPA</span>&#x2019;s Clean Water Act <span class="dictionary">Hazardous Substances</span> <span class="dictionary">Facility</span> Response Plans pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 118.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Hazardous substance</span>&#x201D; means any federal Clean Water Act <span class="dictionary">hazardous substance</span> designated in 40 C.F.R. Part 116. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Hazardous substance</span>&#x201D; does not include <span class="dictionary">oil</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Oil</span>&#x201D; means <span class="dictionary">oil</span> of any kind and in any form, including animal fat, vegetable <span class="dictionary">oil</span>, cooking <span class="dictionary">oil</span>, petroleum and any petroleum by-product, fuel <span class="dictionary">oil</span>, lubricating <span class="dictionary">oil</span>, sludge, <span class="dictionary">oil</span> refuse, <span class="dictionary">oil</span> mixed with <span class="dictionary">other wastes</span> that are not a <span class="dictionary">hazardous substance</span>, crude <span class="dictionary">oil</span>, and any other liquid hydrocarbon regardless of specific gravity.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Operator</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">person</span> that owns, operates, charters, rents, or otherwise exercises control or responsibility for a <span class="dictionary">facility</span>.</p></section></text><history>2025, c. 279.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
